Our goal is to promote the independent online media outlets, internet writers, blogs and websites of this association to increase awareness and respect as active members of the media that cover the Washington Nationals MLB club.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Washington, DC chapter of the Internet Baseball Writers Association is an organization comprised of Internet writers, on-line media outlets, and bloggers.

In accordance with its stated goal of promoting the members of the association and increasing awareness and respect as active members of the media that cover the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball club, the DC-IBWA is pleased to announce its member-voted winners of the 2012 Player Achievement Awards.

Each individual award is named after a member of the district’s storied baseball heritage, to promote awareness of the significance of the history of Washington, DC baseball. Biographies of the honored historical players can be found at this link.

Voters were asked to name first, second and third place for each category. First place votes received five points, second place votes received three points and third place votes received one point.

In addition, the voters were also asked to respond to six survey questions about the Nationals and the on-line media community.

1 comment:

I wrestled with Minor League Player of the Year. My initial entries were Skole, Karns, and Goodwin. Then I saw the definition of the award, "Minor league player most destined for big league success." So, do I reward the players with the best years (Skole, Karns, Goodwin, imo), or do I list who I think has the best chance to be a productive Major Leaguer? I wen't with option 2, and submitted Goodwin, Rendon, Meyer, and Garcia (I couldn't choose between the two for third place). Even with Karns' great year, he's still old for the levels, and three years removed from huge shoulder surgery. He has no track record of being healthy, so I didn't consider him destined for big league success, as his shoulder might give out. On the flip side, Rendon played in all of 43 games this year, with a slash of .162/.305/.368 in 21 games in AA. Best year of anyone? Not even close, but I still feel his skills have him being a big leaguer.Okay, I guess I should have made this a post on my blog, but, well, I haven't posted there in forever, and I'm not about to mess with the mojo at this point. Yes, my silence is directly related to the Nats record. The more they won, the less I wanted to write, for fear of jinxing them.Okay, to anyone who actually read this, do yourself a favor and read something shorter. Like... Infinite Jest or something.

WELCOME TO THE HOME OF THE DC-IBWA

This site is the home of the Washington, DC chapter of the Internet Baseball Writers Association, founded in 2009.

Our goal is to promote the independent online media outlets, Internet writers, blogs and websites of this association to increase awareness and respect as active members of the media that cover the Washington Nationals MLB club.

The Association will vote each season on post-season Player Achievement Awards, both for the Washington Nationals and for the BBWAA Awards. Local awards will be named after heroes of Washington baseball. In addition, the Association will recognize excellence within the blogging community as well.

The member sites listed on our home page have met the criteria for membership and provide consistent, excellent content covering the Washington Nationals.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please e-mail the Association at DCIBWA@gmail.com and a representative of the organizing committee will respond to your inquiry.

Thank you for your interest in the DC-IBWA and its contributing members.